OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed	47
Evolving Human Brains: Paleoneurology and the Fate of Middle Pleistocene	45
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic	32
Mark Making and Human Becoming	29
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP	25
Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results: a Postdictive Roman Road Case Study	24
What Stimulated Rapid, Cumulative Innovation After 100,000 Years Ago?	23
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models	19
Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review	19
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images	18
Using Radiocarbon Dates and Tool Design Principles to Assess the Role of Composite Slotted Bone Tool Technology at the Intersection of Adaptation and Culture-History	18
Defining and Characterising Clusters in Palaeolithic Sites: a Review of Methods and Constraints	17
Relationships Between Lipid Profiles and Use of Ethnographic Pottery: an Exploratory Study	15
Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges	15
Deconstructing Hunting Returns: Can We Reconstruct and Predict Payoffs from Pursuing Prey?	13
Application of Line of Sight and Potential Audience Analysis to Unravel the Spatial Organization of Palaeolithic Cave Art	13
Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia	12
Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society	12
Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites	12
A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari	11
Diet, Mobility, Technology, and Lithics: Neolithization on the Andean Altiplano, 7.0–3.5 ka	11
Investigating Isotopic Niche Space: Using rKIN for Stable Isotope Studies in Archaeology	11
Projectiles Under a New Angle: a Ballistic Analysis Provides an Important Building Block to Grasp Paleolithic Weapon Technology	11
Constraining the Likely Technological Niches of Late Middle Pleistocene Hominins with Homo naledi as Case Study	10
Joining the Circle: Native American Philosophy Applied to the Study of Late Archaic Shell Rings of the Southeast United States	9

A Synthesis of the Dibble et al. Controlled Experiments into the Mechanics of Lithic Production	9
The Tip Cross-sectional Area (TCSA) Method Strengthened and Constrained with Ethno-historical Material from Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Interpreting Past Human Diets Using Stable Isotope Mixing Models—Best Practices for Data Acquisition	9
A Multivariate Approach to Investigate Metallurgical Technology: The Case of the Chinese Ritual Bronzes	8
Wealth and Well-being in an Ancient Maya Community	8
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens	8
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence?: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobi	8
Self-Organized Cultural Cycles and the Uncertainty of Archaeological Thought	8
An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past	8
The Role of Functional Efficiency in the Decline of North America’s Copper Culture (8000–3000 BP): an Experimental, Ecological, and Evolutionary Approach	7
Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)	7
Stringing Together Cowrie Shells in the African Archaeological Record with Special Reference to Southern Africa	7
Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)	7
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites	7
A Journey Begins with a Single Step: How Early Holocene Humans and Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Embarked on the Pathway to Domestication in the Eastern Fertile Crescent	7
The Technological Behaviours of Homo antecessor: Core Management and Reduction Intensity at Gran Dolina-TD6.2 (Atapuerca, Spain)	7
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica	7
The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania	6
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains: an experimental study to interpret archaeological assemblages	6
Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management	6
From Hafting to Retooling: Miniaturization as Tolerance Control in Paleolithic and Neolithic Blade Production	6